Blank Disc
The primary purpose of this tool is blanking rewritable compact disks
and formatting
DVD+RW and
BD-RE disks.
To perform this operation you need to load a compact disk into the
recording device, to choose this device as the recorder device, to choose the
blanking type, and then to press the Erase button.
Compact disk blanking management controls are listed below:
- Recorder
Allows to select the recording device with an inserted compact disk,
which has to be blanked or formatted. Use the button Select...
located near by the device description to choose correct device.
- Blanking
- Fast blank
- Minimal disk blanking. In this case only the disk header will be
erased. Despite the fact the disk seems to be blanked, data are left
on disk. If this data needed to be erased (e.g. for security reasons)
an entire disk blanking has to be performed.
- Blank the entire disk
- Full disk blanking. All data on disk are erased and cannot be restored.
Attention: Blanking an entire disk takes a significant
time. This operation can take 10 minutes and more depending on the
media type and the maximal writing speed of the compact disk writer.
- Format a DVD disk
- Formatting of DVD+RW and
BD-RE disks. Before first use,
such disks have to be formatted. It is usually not necesssary to
format them manually, because DVD/CD Toys will do it automatically if
required before writing. Formatting can be considered as an equivalent
of a fast blanking for the other types of compact disks.
Attention: This choice is hidden in those DVD/CD Toys
configurations which allow to determine automatically the type of
compact disk. In this case, during minimal
DVD+RW and
BD-RE disks blanking they will
automatically formatted.
- Force to continue on blanking errors
Force to continue on some errors. Be careful when using this option.
Many of the sanity checks are disabled when this option is used.
This option also implements some tricks that will allow you to blank
bad CD-RW disks.
- Eject disk after blanking
The media will be ejected from the recording device after blanking
completion.